Designers, let's talk resume font size. How small is too small?

[JoeM]

Resume creation has really become a cr@p shoot in recent years. When I was hiring designers before I retired I would review actual resumes. Two pages max was acceptable providing the applicant’s work history and accomplishments required it but one page was usually appropriate. I felt anything less that 10 pts really wasn’t readily legible for a manually reviewed resume but for resumes I myself submitted to a “big machine” corporate environment that would be parsed to a DB I always submitted a simple Word file at 12 pts, Times Roman. That was really the only way you could ensure that your uploaded resume file would parse and properly propagate the required fields. PDF files were really hit and more times, miss.